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The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three…The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three…
The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed for Luke Fawne, 1643
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How in Judgement? Because God considers what he does, when he takes a people or person to himself; not that God chooseth for any wealth or worth in the Creature: Faith foreseen or Works foreseen; but that finding it (on the contrary) poor and beggarly, and undone, and foreseeing what it is like to prove, ⟨p. 70⟩crooked and froward, unteachable and untractable; he sits down (to speak after the manner of men) and considers, what course to take, and what it is like to cost him, to make them such a people, as he may delight in; and then consulting with his treasures, and finding he hath wherewith all to bear their charges, and to bring about his own ends; he resolves to take them, and marry them to himself, whatsoever it cost him.
How in Judgement? Because God considers what he does, when he takes a people or person to himself; not that God chuseth for any wealth or worth in the Creature: Faith foreseen or Works foreseen; but that finding it (on the contrary) poor and beggerly, and undone, and foreseeing what it is like to prove, ⟨p. 70⟩crooked and froward, unteachable and untractable; he sits down (to speak after the manner of men) and considers, what course to take, and what it is like to cost him, to make them such a people, as he may delight in; and then consulting with his treasures, and finding he hath wherewith all to bear their charges, and to bring about his own ends; he resolves to take them, and marry them to himself, whatsoever it cost him.